Obituary of Della Mae Patten, [handdated 1996], Della Mae Patten, 91, ofGrinnell, formerly of Brooklyn, died Sunday, June 16, at St. FrancisManor. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at Grace UnitedMethodist Church in Brooklyn, with the Rev. William Daylong officiating.Organist was Anita Ormiston. Pallbearers were Mrs. Patten's grandsons.Burial was in Brooklyn Memorial Cemetery. The daughter of William A. andEva Anna Keeney Smith Patten (sic), she was born near Springfield, Mo.She moved with her family to Brooklyn. On Oct. 11, 1920, she was marriedto John Edwin Patten in Marshalltown. They lived in Brooklyn and, for 35years, in Grinnell. They returned to Brooklyn in 1973. Mrs. Patten hadbeena resident of St. Francis for four years. She was a former nurse'saide at St. Francis and had been an employee of Tent and Awning ofGrinnell. She was a member of the American Legion Auxilliary of Kelloggand the Birthday Club of Holiday Lake. Surviving are eight daughters,Doraldine Edstrom of Omaha, Neb., Norma Wilson of Grinnell, Anna BelleRobison of Cedar Falls, Donna Collum of Welton, Pat Clark of Kellogg,Nancy Ogden of East St. Louis, Ill., Lila McCammant of Grinnell and LindaPatten of Grinnell; three sons, Wayne of Brooklyn, Ed of Lebanon, Mo.,and Jim of Brooklyn; two half-sisters, Ruth Rhinehart of Brooklyn andPauline Lynch of Belton, Mo.; 39 grandchildren; 66 great-grandchildren;and 19 great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by herparents, her husband, one brother, one sister, two half-brothers, threegrandchildren and one great-granddaughter.

[S149] Della Mae Patten, [handdated 1996], Della Mae Patten, 91, of Grinnell, formerly of Brooklyn, died Sunday, June 16, at St. Francis Manor. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at Grace United Methodist Church in Br, ooklyn, with the Rev. William Daylong officiating. Organist was Anita Ormiston. Pallbearers were Mrs. Patten's grandsons. Burial was in Brooklyn Memor.